Organ Grinder Swing
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{{Infobox album
| name = Organ Grinder Swing
| type = studio
| artist = Jimmy Smith
| cover = jimmyorgan.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1965
| recorded = June 14–15, 1965
| venue =
| studio = Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
| genre = Jazz
| length = 36:41
| label = Verve
| producer = Creed Taylor
| prev_title = Monster
| prev_year = 1965
| next_title = Got My Mojo Workin'
| next_year = 1965
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Organ Grinder Swing
| type = studio
| single1 = Organ Grinder's Swing
| single1date = September 1965
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r147783|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]
| rev3 = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
| rev3Score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite book
|editor-last=Swenson
|editor-first=J.
| year = 1985
| title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
|url=https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen
|url-access=registration
| publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone
| location = USA
| isbn = 0-394-72643-X
| pages = [https://archive.org/details/rollingstonejazz00swen/page/183 183]
}}
| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
| rev2Score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|edition=4th|isbn=978-0195313734|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}
}}
Organ Grinder Swing is a 1965 studio album by Jimmy Smith. It marked a return to the trio ensemble that Smith used on the Blue Note recordings earlier in his career.
Reception
AllMusic's Scott Yanow stated: {{blockquote| This outing is a throwback to Smith's Blue Note sets (which had concluded two years earlier) and gives the organist the opportunity to stretch out on three blues and three standards. This release shows that, even with all of his commercial success during the period, Smith was always a masterful jazz player.}}
The album was the second highest-charting album of Smith's career, reaching a chart position of number 15 on the US Billboard 200 charts. It was on the charts for 31 weeks.
Track listing
- "Organ Grinder's Swing" (Will Hudson, Irving Mills, Mitchell Parish) – 2:16
- "Oh No, Babe" (Jimmy Smith) – 9:02
- "Blues for J" (Smith) – 5:19
- "Greensleeves" (Traditional) – 8:54
- "I'll Close My Eyes" (Buddy Kaye, Billy Reid) – 3:19
- "Satin Doll" (Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Billy Strayhorn) – 7:01
Personnel
=Musicians=
=Technical=
- Creed Taylor – producer
- Rudy Van Gelder – engineer
- Val Valentin – director of engineering
- Chuck Stewart – photography
- Holmes Daddy-O Daylie – liner notes
Chart performance
=Album=
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Chart (1965)
!Peak !Total |
|---|
| align="left"|U.S. Billboard 200
| style="text-align:center;"|15{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/jimmy-smith/chart-history/tlp/|title=Billboard 200 - Jimmy Smith|access-date=December 20, 2017}} | style="text-align:center;"|31 |
=Single=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
!Single !Chart !Position |
|---|
| 1965
| style="text-align:center;"|92{{cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/jimmy-smith/chart-history|title=Billboard Hot 100 - Jimmy Smith|access-date=December 20, 2017}} |